Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Hydrogen: Toyota and Honda Team Up On Fuel Cell Bus as Mobile Power Source for Disaster Relief

As we noted back in July, when CMA CGN joined the CEO-Led Hydrogen Council:
These are not the little guys.
The new co-chair is Takeshi Uchiyamada, Chairman of Toyota ($275 billion revenue).
He joins BenoĆ®t Potier Chair and CEO of Air Liquide ($26 billion revs.) who has been co-chair since 2017.  
From New Atlas, September 7:
Testing of fuel cell bus as mobile power source for disaster relief begins
When disaster strikes, the power often goes out, and it may be a good while before it's restored. Toyota and Honda start testing the Moving e system this month, a fuel cell bus designed to serve as a mobile power source to help meet a community's emergency electricity needs.

The Moving e mobile power generation/output system is made up of a fuel cell bus from Toyota that's able to carry twice the amount of hydrogen as the FC Bus its based on, two Power Exporter 9000 portable power units from Honda, 20 LiB-AID E500 and 36 Honda Mobile Power Pack portable batteries, and charger/dischargers for the Mobile Power Packs. All in, the demonstrator is expected to generate 454 kWh and output 18 kW....
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